Hemiptera

Masked hunter camouflage

(ENG) This critter lived in a rotten trunk, where the action of xilophagus insects (that feed on wood) and the fungi hade made wood become sawdust. It’s even hard to belief that this is alive if it’s not moving, but actually it’s an Hemiptera, whose strategy consist on covering up its body with sawdust, plenty of sawdust. Inside the Reduviidae family there are these “masked hunter assassin bugs” that use this behavior to ambush their preys, and strike as in a horror movie.